RE: Verizon outage in Southern California?
We lost connectivity to a number of customers in the Los Angeles and Long beach area and the local AM radio news stations are talking about some major telephone issues regarding Verizon.
Anyone have more information? It seems to have started around 02:30 local time this morning.
We lost connectivity (WAN/Internet/POTS) to our Long Beach site at around 2:27 AM PDT today. Several news agencies are reporting it on the web (hooray news.google.com), citing "mechanical glitches" or bad weather. I've also heard rumors of a power outage, though I find those highly suspect. Choose your villan, I guess. http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/ northern_california/12933014.htm http://www.nbc4.tv/news/5115425/detail.html http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=local&id=3546999 Jason "Feren" Olsen Senior Network Engineer DeVry, Inc Em: jolsen@devry.com Ph: 630-645-1607 One Tower Lane INOC-DBA: 19258*526 Fx: 630-389-2929 Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181
Olsen, Jason wrote:
Anyone have more information? It seems to have started around 02:30 local time this morning.
We lost connectivity (WAN/Internet/POTS) to our Long Beach site at around 2:27 AM PDT today. Several news agencies are reporting it on the web (hooray news.google.com), citing "mechanical glitches" or bad weather.
Bad weather could definitely be a factor. Southern Cali electric utilities are notoriously unreliable during bad weather, especially up in my neck of the woods. It's been raining pretty steadily here for the past two days; I drove 150 miles from Apple Valley to northeast San Diego this morning and it was even raining down here in SD -- may still be raining now, I just haven't looked outside. I even heard a radio report that a funnel cloud touched down in the foothills outside Los Angeles; I forget exactly where. (That doesn't happen very often around here.) -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek 888-480-4638 PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Company website: http://JustThe.net/ Personal blog, resume, portfolio: http://SteveSobol.com/ E: sjsobol@JustThe.net Snail: 22674 Motnocab Road, Apple Valley, CA 92307
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:59:37 -0700 Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote:
Olsen, Jason wrote:
Anyone have more information? It seems to have started around 02:30 local time this morning.
We lost connectivity (WAN/Internet/POTS) to our Long Beach site at around 2:27 AM PDT today. Several news agencies are reporting it on the web (hooray news.google.com), citing "mechanical glitches" or bad weather.
Bad weather could definitely be a factor.
Southern Cali electric utilities are notoriously unreliable during bad weather, especially up in my neck of the woods. It's been raining pretty steadily here for the past two days; I drove 150 miles from Apple Valley to northeast San Diego this morning and it was even raining down here in SD -- may still be raining now, I just haven't looked outside. I even heard a radio report that a funnel cloud touched down in the foothills outside Los Angeles; I forget exactly where. (That doesn't happen very often around here.)
While weather in Southern California may affect your electricity, it has only a minor effect in the Long Beach area. Monday evening's storm was fairly mild with winds under 10 MPH and less than a half an inch of rain overnight. Not what I would consider a heavy storm. Rains do cause telco data problems. When I had dial-up, my maximum rate dropeed from about 45K to 37Kbps during and for a day or two following rain. Telephone service is beginning to be restored in the Long Beach area but is still sporadic. Around 2:20 or 2:30 a.m., I was awoken by my clock radio with three or more sets of soft buzzing noises--as though a radio station went silent. I checked my cordless phone and had dialtone, then went back to sleep. Is there any correlation? matthew black e-mail postmaster california state university, long beach
Matthew Black wrote:
While weather in Southern California may affect your electricity,
...It does, and it's more of an electric utility problem than a weather problem. :P
it has only a minor effect in the Long Beach area. Monday evening's storm was fairly mild with winds under 10 MPH and less than a half an inch of rain overnight. Not what I would consider a heavy storm.
Yeah, I figured the heavy winds might have more to do with any possible outages than the rain did. Obviously, though, not a big issue in Long Beach...
Rains do cause telco data problems. When I had dial-up, my maximum rate dropeed from about 45K to 37Kbps during and for a day or two following rain.
*nod* but that's 56K dialup, which is a crapshoot anyhow. I'd be more interested in finding out if there were any weather-related issues with services that are normally more stable than dialup. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek 888-480-4638 PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Company website: http://JustThe.net/ Personal blog, resume, portfolio: http://SteveSobol.com/ E: sjsobol@JustThe.net Snail: 22674 Motnocab Road, Apple Valley, CA 92307
Around 2:20 or 2:30 a.m., I was awoken by my clock radio with three or more sets of soft buzzing noises--as though a radio station went silent. I checked my cordless phone and had dialtone, then went back to sleep. Is there any correlation?
I guess my posting wasn't clear. The radio portion of my clock radio was completely off. The clock was working and the alarm was set for 5:50 a.m. to turn on the radio. My cordless phone sits adjacent to the clock radio. The cordless phone near my bed is an extension sitting in its charging base but it is not the base telephone station which is located in another room and plugged into a POTS line. During the night, my radio is normally silent. Maybe the noises that I heard around 2:30 a.m. came from the cordless phone instead of the clock radio. I just thought it was a conicidence that I hear strange noises around the same time my local phone company experiences a major outage. matthew black california state university, long beach
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